Corn-fodder knife



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Sept. H, E923'.

F. CABALKA COllN FODDER KNIFE Filed Dc.

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Patented Sept. ll, 1923. I

.FRANK CABALKA, 0F GEDDES, SOUTH DAKOTA.

CORN-FODDER KNIFE.

Application filed December 11, 1922.

i of construction as hereinafter shown and described and thenspecifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrativeof the preferred embodiment of the invention-e Figure l is a sideelevation, partly in section.

Figure 2 is a plan view.

Figure 3 is a transverse section on the line 2%3 of F ig. 2.

Figure 4L is a transverse section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.-

The improved device comprises a base or platform portion 10 having alongitu dinal opening or slot 11 and supported upon transverse cleats 12and with an encompassing drop portion 13.

The cleats 12 serve as heads to support leg members 14 which are boltedthereto, as at 15.

Attached to the upper face of the platform 10 near one end is a dividedstandard 16 between whose sides a cutting blade or knife 17 is pivotedat 18.

The knife extends at its free end beyond the opposite end of theplatform and is provided with hand grip members 19.

Attached to the platform 10 adjacentthe handle end of the blade arespaced guides 20, 21 supported by braces 22 and 23 from the platform andbetween which the knife is 1eceived and guided during the cuttingaction.

Preferably a steel ledger strip 24 will be attached to one inner face ofthe opening 11 to coact with the cutting edge of the knife, asillustrated in Figures 2, 3 and 4.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be manufacturedentirely of wood except the blade and the bracket 16 and guides 20 and21.

The improved device may be of any desired size or capacity and will befound very eicient for cutting up corn stalks and other fodder materialfor packing in silos and for feeding` direct.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the drawingsand set forth in the specifications, but it will be understood thatmodifications within the scope of the claims may be made in theconstruction without departing from the principle of the invention orsacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention what Serial No. 606,169.

is claimed as new is:

1. An apparatus of the class described comprisinga supporting platformhaving a longitudinally directed slot and holding cleats transverselybeneath the platform and transversely of the slot, a bracket deviceincluding spaced sides with one side mounted on said platform adjacentto one end of said slot and the other side bearing upon the adjacentcleat within the slot, guide standards formed with spaced sidesdisconnected at their upper ends, with one side attached at its lowerend to said platform and the other side attached to the adjacent cleatwithin the slot, a ledger plate located within the slot and attached toone side of the same, the terminals of the plate being held respectivelyat the endsbeneath the lower end at one side of the guide member and oneside member of the standard and bearing upon the cleats, and a knifemember pivoted at one end to said bracket and operating between saidguide standards, the cutting edge of said knife coacting with saidledger plate.

2. Anapparatus ofthe character set forth having a platform with asupport and con necting cleats, said platform having a slot transverselyto said cleats; guides, and a divided bracket connected respectively tosaid cleats near the opposite ends of said slot, a ledger blade restingat its ends on said cleats and against one wall of the slot, and amovable blade pivoted in said bracket and working in said slot andguides.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature hereto.

FRANK CABALKA,

